Park Young-ae, 60, owner of Young Hoon Restaurant, arranges dog meats at her restaurant in Pyeongchang, South Korea

She said:"I don't have the luxury of keeping another dog in my small condo," she said. "As much as I would love to."

Local authorities asked the 12 dog meat restaurants in Pyeongchang county to stop serving the food during the Games, in exchange for subsidies.

But only two have complied, Pyeongchang County government official Lee Yong-bae told AFP.

He said: "We've faced a lot of complaints from restaurant operators that we are threatening their livelihood.

"Some of them initially shifted to selling pork or things instead of dog meat only to find their sales plunging sharply. They then switched back to dog meat."

Signs advertising dog meat dishes such as boshintang (health-boosting soup), yeongyangtang (nutrient soup) or sacheoltang (year-round soup) have been replaced with more neutral ones such as yeomsotang (goat soup) to avoid giving "a bad impression to foreigners" during the Games, he added.

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